Category: 3. Middle East

SpaceX pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor OpenAI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.

Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a…

United States President Donald Trump says he has had “very good talks” with Iran over the past 24 hours and it is “very possible that we will make a deal”, as Tehran reviews a US peace proposal that sources said would formally end the…

Paris Saint-Germain win both legs of their semifinal with Bayern Munich to take the tie 6-4.

Holders Paris Saint-Germain booked a Champions League final against Arsenal as a 1-1 draw in their semifinal second leg…

Secessionists in the western Canadian province of Alberta recently announced that they have gathered enough signatures to launch a referendum on independence from the rest of the country.

Leading secessionists said that they formally submitted…

Israel bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time since the ‘ceasefire’ took effect on April 17. Video shows extensive damage to a multi-storey building in a densely populated neighbourhood. Israel killed at least 13 people…

By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force is targeting a Fourth of July delivery for a Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar that would join the Air Force One fleet in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary, a U.S. official and a person…

Russia has begun rolling mobile internet shutdowns in Moscow and other cities, which authorities say is to counter drone threats. As Dmitry Medvedenko reports, the measures come ahead of the May 9 Victory Day parade, which has been scaled…

Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to the capital.

In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters from the armed…

Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship off the coast of Cape Verde after an outbreak of hantavirus. Three people have died on the MV Hondius. Cape Verde refused permission for the ship to dock. It’s now heading for the…

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters that the U.S. has had very good talks with Iran in the last 24 hours, adding that it was very possible that Washington and Tehran would make a deal.

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